Guy Klucevsek

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Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947 in New Kensington , Pennsylvania ) is an American accordionist and composer . The musician, who improvised confidently but also played difficult sheet music scores, gave modern creative music important impulses and carried on various traditions from polka , country and Balkan music towards the avant-garde .

Life

Klucevsek, the son of Slovenian immigrants, learned to play the accordion since 1955; at the age of 14 he formed his first band. Until 1972 he studied composition with Morton Subotnick , Gerald Shapiro and Robert Bernat , among others at the California Institute of the Arts . Then he first worked as a musician in theater and ballet productions, before he drew attention to himself in 1987 with his solo project "Scenes from a Mirage", where the accordion sounded like an organ, a synthesizer or a harmonium, but the timbres of the instrument did not processed electronically. He then worked with John Zorn and Bill Frisell , with whom he made numerous recordings. At the beginning of the 1990s, he released two avant-garde polka albums. In 1996 he was one of the founders of the Accordion Tribe , with which he toured several times. Since 1998 he has been part of the ensemble Charms of the Night Sky by Dave Douglas . His Bantam Orchestra illuminated the field between modern jazz and new music . He also works with Alan Bern , Laurie Anderson , Elliott Sharp , Anthony Braxton , Amy Denio , Anthony Coleman , Doug Wieselman , the Kronos Quartet and Phillip Johnston . He has also performed compositions by Pauline Oliveros , Alvin Lucier , Mary Ellen Childs , Fred Frith , William Duckworth , Aaron Jay Kernis , Jerome Kitzke , Stephen Montague , Somei Satoh and John Cage .

Prizes and awards

In 1995 and 2002 he was awarded a Bessie ( New York Dance & Performance Award ); In 1996 he received one of the Publishers Weekly Listen Up Audiobook Awards for his music for the audio book Accordion Crimes .

Discography (selection)

  • Manhattan Cascade (1991)
  • Flying Vegetables of the Apocalypse (1991)
  • Polka Dots and Laser Beams (1992)
  • Who Stole the Polka? (1992)
  • Citrus, My Love (1993)
  • Transylvanian Softwear (1994)
  • Stolen Memories (1996)
  • Free Range Accordion (2000)
  • Accordance (2001)
  • Tales from the Cryptic (2003)
  • The Well-Tampered Accordion (2005)
  • Dancing on the Volcano (2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Kampmann (ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Klucevsek, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American accordionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New Kensington , Pennsylvania